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How does your body know what time it is? - Marco A. Sotomayor

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Being able to sense time helps us do everything from waking and sleeping to knowing precisely when to catch a ball that’s hurtling towards us. And we owe all these abilities to an interconnected system of timekeepers in our brains. But how do they work? Marco A. Sotomayor details how human bodies naturally tell time.

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Meet The Creators

Educator
Marco A Sotomayor
Director
Hector Herrera
Script Editor
Emma Bryce
Producer
Pazit Cahlon
Composer
Adam Harendorf
Sound Designer
Adam Harendorf
Narrator
Addison Anderson

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